[m-rev.] for review: add a note about the behaviour of foreign_import_module

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Mark Brown wrote:

> On 10-Aug-2007, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> For review by anyone.
>>
>> Estimated hours taken: 0.2
>> Branches: main
>>
>> Add a note about the behaviour of the Mercury implementation with
>> respect to foreign_import_module pragmas.
>>
>> doc/reference_manual.texi:
>> 	Mention that the Melbourne Mercury implementation sometimes
>> 	implicitly creates foreign_import_module pragmas.
>>
>> Julien.
>>
>> Index: reference_manual.texi
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file:
>> /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/doc/reference_manual.texi,v
>> retrieving revision 1.401
>> diff -u -r1.401 reference_manual.texi
>> --- reference_manual.texi	25 Jul 2007 06:12:28 -0000	1.401
>> +++ reference_manual.texi	10 Aug 2007 05:27:29 -0000
>> @@ -7079,6 +7079,12 @@
>>  A cycle of @samp{pragma foreign_import_module}, where the language is
>>  @samp{"C#"} or @samp{"Java"}, is not permitted.
>>
>> +Note that the Melbourne Mercury implementation may sometimes implicitly
>> insert
>> + at samp{pragma foreign_import_module} declarations
>
> It might be helpful to add ", when using the high-level backend for example, "
> or something like that.  Otherwise this change is good.

It's not just the high-level backend though.  Compiling with 
--intermodule-optimization enabled, in any grade, will have a similar
effect.

Julien.
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